Cuff button



A. R. GLIDDEN CUFF BUTTON Filed F's-$3.4, 1924 INVENTOR 140020. A.G/Adoex:

' ATTORNEY Patented Get. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CUFF BUTTON.

Application filed February 4, 1924. Serial No. 690,532.

To aZZ whom it may cancer 21 Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. (iLIDDEN. acitizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of Kingand State of Vashington, have invented certain new and usefulImprovement in Cuff Buttons. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cuff-buttons and its object is the provisionof a button of this character having an extensible shank which permitsthe button being elongated for increasing the opening in the cuff toenable the wearers hand to pass through the cuff opening when putting onor removing a shirt.

With this and other objects in view, as will appear in the followingdescription, the invention consists in the novel construction of acuff-button comprising a shank formed of two telescopically arrangedelements and in the resilient means for yieldingly connecting the sametogether hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a view partly in longitudinal section and partly in sideelevation of a cuff-button, illustrating the preferred form of myinvention and showing the normal position of the parts. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same in its normal contracted form applied to a shirtcuff which is shown in transverse section. Fig. 3 is a view simi lar toFig 9 showing the cuff-button elongated.

In said drawing, the reference numeral represents the head of acuff-button member having rigid therewith a tubular stem or post element6 into which extends the stem 7 of a second member having a head 8. Thehead 8 is rigid with its stem 7 which. within the post 6, is providedwith an end flange element 9 which serves as a bearing for an end of ahelical spring 10 whose other end bears against an annular shoulder 11provided by the inturned outer extremity of the tubular post 6.

The spring, moreover, tends to retain the end element 9 of the stem 7against the head 5.

As illustrated in Fig. l, the head 5 consists, preferably, of aconcave-convex outer part 12 and an ann'ular inner part 13 which issecured about its periphery to said outer part 12 by crimping the latteras at 14 thereover.

The post 6 extends, as shown, through the aperture of the part 13 tobear against the head part 12 which serves to close the end of the post6 adjacent thereto. The post 6 is provided with a peripheral flange 15which is engaged between the inner and outer head-parts 12 and 13.

In use, the cuff-button shank constituted of the post 6 and the stem 7of the respec tive heads extends through the button holes 16 of a shirtcuff, as 17, to couple the free portions 18 of the cuff with each other.Normally the spring 10 serves to retain the cuff-button in itsrelatively contracted condition as limited by the stem end 9 engagingagainst the head, but when the cuff is expanded by drawing the same upona relatively large portion of the arm as the elbow or hand, for example,the spring yields to enable the cuff-button to lengthen.

The extensible character of the cuff-button enables a shirt to be put onor off, or the cuffs pulled up over the elbows. without disconnectingthe buttons from the cuffs.

What I claim, is,-

A cufhbutton comprising two rigid members, each having a head element.one of said members being provided with a hollow post element having aflange at its outer end, the other of said members being provided with astem extending axially into said postelement and having a flange withinthe latter. and an expansion spring provided within said post andbetween said flanges, said spring acting to yieldingly retain said stemof the associated member in contact with the head element of the othermember.

Signed at Seattle Washington, this th day of January 1924.

ARTHUR R. GLIDDEN.

